To a question on the population recently acquired the lands by the Russian territory under the Beijing Treaty of 1860

Abstract

In 2001 Russia and the PRCh have signed the Treaty on good neighborhood, friendship and cooperation. And in October, 2004 - the Additional agreement on the Russian-Chinese border on the Eastern part. These events have sharply urged the inter-est of the readers to the history of formation of the Russian-Chinese Border. At the same time, reading of not a lot of materials about the history of this problem, only increases the readers quantity of the questions. For example, when the reader learns, that under the Beijing Treaty of 1860 the Qing Empire gave Russia a very large area along the rivers Amur and Ussuri, he immediately arises the questions: - Why? What are the reasons of transfer are so vast lands? And who lived here before the arrival of the Russians? This latter question and tried to answer the author of this article.